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Local Cloud Backups

Starting in v10.0, Cloud Backups are built directly into the core Local application, offering a faster, more reliable way to protect your work and move between machines. This makes it easy to connect to your Cloud Provider (Google Drive or Dropbox) and quickly backup any Local site to the cloud.

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If you’re looking for instructions on our Legacy Cloud Backups add-on, those can still be found here.

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Requirements

To use Local Cloud Backups, you need:

  1. Local v10.0.0 or newer
  2. A cloud storage provider (Google Drive or Dropbox)

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A Local account is no longer required to manage the connection. You can simply connect to your provider directly within the app settings and go!

Using Local Cloud Backups

Connect a site to a provider

Connect your preferred cloud storage provider directly within the Local application settings with the steps below.

  1. In Local, go to Backups.
  2. Click Connect for Google Drive or Dropbox and follow the instructions to configure the connection.

Back up a Site

Once connected, you can create and restore backups for your sites!

  1. Navigate to the site you wish to back up.
  2. Go to the Backups tab.
  3. Click the Create backup button.

Create a Site from a Backup

Local Cloud Backups lets you create a site from a previously made backup. Simply click the three dots next to the backup you’d like to use, then select Create site from backup. This can also be done in the Managing All Backups area (see here).

Restore a Site from a Backup

You can restore any backup by clicking on the three dots and selecting Restore.

Restoring a backup will overwrite the current site and keep it connected to the backups in your cloud provider.

Managing All Backups

The Connect area in Local v10.0 includes a view that shows all your backups across your sites. From there, you can create a new site from a backup, or edit, download, and delete existing backups.

Use Cloud Backups with Multiple Machines

Local Cloud Backups can be restored on other machines, so that syncing work between two computers is fast and easy!

To get started with this workflow. On both computers:

  1. Install Local v10.0.0 or newer
  2. Log in to the same cloud provider (Google Drive or Dropbox) on both machines.
  3. When creating a new site on the second machine, select Create a site from backup.
  4. Follow the prompts to select the remote backup and the specific snapshot to restore.

—–For users migrating from the Cloud Backups Add-on: An accompanying update to the old Cloud Backups add-on provides a simple migration flow to the new native experience. Once complete, you are free to delete the add-on.

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